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Article: Official:successful flame-lighting bodes well for Paralympics
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 28, 2008
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Official:successful flame-lighting bodes well for Paralympics
BEIJING, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Clouds cleared enough Thursday
morning to allow the sun to ignite the Beijing Paralympic flame, and
the organizers believed it boded well.
"We were worried about the weather before the ceremony, but the
sun appeared just in time," said Tang Xiaoquan, executive vice
president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games
(BOCOG).
"The Paralympic flame lighting ceremony was very successful. I
think it boded that the Beijing Paralympics will be running
smoothly," she added.
The flame-lighting ceremony was held at the ancient Temple of
Heaven, a gateway between the earth and the sky in ...